Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures,… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
As metal rang on metal, some inner part of Jem, some part that had been lost without his even knowing it was… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I had the pleasure of listening to Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album on audio cassette, which had just come out at… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even,… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Out of the ruined lodge and forgotten mansion, bowers that are trodden under foot, and pleasure-houses that are dust, the poet calls… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
When I portray Stabler, I have to shave every day and cut my hair every week! And then, I really like to… — Christopher Meloni Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When Benedict dies, he will have the pleasure of standing before whatever furious God he believes in, to answer for how it… — Mark Morford Copy Share Image
the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two… — Adam Garcia Copy Share Image
Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“...to hold twilight or watch it darken, describes the pleasure we take in pausing to observe as day slips into night. To… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Money is a response. We use it to express our social values, our gratitude, our appreciation, our pleasure, our support. Money gives… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Work, look for peace and calm in work: You will find it nowhere else. Pleasures flit by -- they are only for… — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the… — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
“He made you you—on purpose. You are the only you—ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I'd never even sung in the shower, I'm too mortified. But once I got over the initial fear it was kind of… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
